Buzz Transcription: Two Quiet Reliability Fixes
Two merged pull requests fixed edge-case bugs affecting file tracking and live translation, both stemming from state that was too simple to handle real-world conditions.
Duration: PT2M12S
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- Show: Buzz Transcription
- Published: 2026-07-17T13:13:56Z
- Audio duration: PT2M12S
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Good morning, it's July 17th, and this is Buzz Transcription.
Today's activity is small but instructive: two targeted bug fixes, both patching gaps where the original logic didn't account for a real-world edge case.
First, the folder watcher. In PR 1556, contributor honma89 fixed a bug where Buzz could silently skip a new file if it shared a filename with a previously processed one. The watcher was only tracking file paths, not file identity. The fix adds file size and modification time to the tracking logic, so Buzz can now…
Second, live recording. PR 1555, from NumerousDragonfly, fixes a crash when using live recording with the whisper dot c-p-p backend and the Translate task. The root cause: the bundled whisper server was started with a single hardcoded route for transcription only. When Translate was selected, it hit that same route…
The common thread here: both bugs came from state or configuration that assumed a narrower set of conditions than users actually hit — one assumed unique filenames, the other assumed a single task type. Neither is a large change, but both were silent failures, which are the riskiest kind since users may not…
What's next: if you rely on folder…
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